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Joe Nolan

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We Bury the Dead (2024) 87% EDIT “We Bury the Dead explores grief, love and unspoken conversations against a backdrop of mounting dread as the dangerous true nature of the outbreak is revealed.” – Nashville Scene Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Mars One (2022) 97% EDIT “The ensemble acting is a highlight here, and the writing choices defied my expectations in the best way. Kudos to Martins for giving us a plot about people instead of a polemic about politics. ” – Nashville Scene Oct 28, 2022 Full Review Carol & Johnny (2022) 100% EDIT “The pace sometimes creeps here, but Carol & Johnny gives viewers a unique window into ordinary lives blown apart by extraordinarily tragic choices. ” – Nashville Scene Oct 28, 2022 Full Review The Integrity of Joseph Chambers (2022) 91% EDIT “Writer-director Robert Machoian delivers a kind of dark comedy about the misadventures of a buffoonish city slicker in the wild. ” – Nashville Scene Oct 28, 2022 Full Review Prey (2022) 94% EDIT “Prey works because it speaks to Naru’s realistic “weaknesses” instead of imbuing her with less-than-believable strengths. She’s small, but she’s quick; she’s not strong, but she’s smart; nobody believes in her, and therefore they never see her coming. ” – Nashville Scene Aug 8, 2022 Full Review Out of the Blue (1980) 95% EDIT “Out of the Blue gives us bravura filmmaking and an energizing soundtrack, but its ultimately a very dark, disturbing story that cranks up the regular struggles and insecurities we expect in teen films until they explode.” – Nashville Scene Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Bruised (2020) 51% EDIT “These lady warriors deserve a film that matches their pioneering grit, and even with its flaws, that's what Berry has delivered with Bruised.” – Nashville Scene Nov 24, 2021 Full Review Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) 100% EDIT “This filmic ritual is an orgy of bare skin, antlers, deep woods, abandoned villages and shape-shifting shadows accompanied by revelatory comments from scholars and filmmakers like David Eggers and Emma Tammi who are leading our current folk-horror revival” – Nashville Scene Oct 12, 2021 Full Review Poser (2021) 83% EDIT “Ori Segev and Noah Dixon's Poser does the opposite - it's a narrative movie that deploys a fictional thriller amid the real-life milieu of Columbus, Ohio's indie music scene.” – Nashville Scene Oct 12, 2021 Full Review A-ha: The Movie (2021) 81% EDIT “Directors Thomas Robsahm and Aslaug Holm accomplish something remarkable in their new music documentary about the Norwegian band A-ha: They tell a completely unexpected story about a band that most American audiences will hardly recognize.” – Nashville Scene Oct 12, 2021 Full Review Heat (1995) 84% EDIT “Heat gives us one of crime cinema's great cat-and-mouse chases, and brilliantly pairs it with the little everyday dramas of family, romance, parenting and work-life balance in the life-and-death professions of both cops and robbers.” – Nashville Scene Sep 13, 2021 Full Review Point Break (1991) 68% EDIT “Come for the guns and money, stay for the sun-baked aphorisms and those big blue waves.” – Nashville Scene Sep 13, 2021 Full Review The Red Circle (1970) 96% EDIT “Melville's influence can also be felt in works by John Woo, Michael Mann and Quentin Tarantino, and Le Cercle Rouge is a good primer on Melville's stripped-down, gritty French take on Raymond Chandler-style trench-coats-and-cigarettes noir.” – Nashville Scene Sep 13, 2021 Full Review The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) 98% EDIT “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three's title is as memorable as its unique hold-a-subway-car-hostage take on the heist film” – Nashville Scene Sep 13, 2021 Full Review Ailey (2021) 90% EDIT “Along with all the incredible dancing - Ailey is at its best as a document of obsessive genius and relentless creative production.” – Nashville Scene Sep 8, 2021 Full Review Silk Road (2021) 50% EDIT “Silk Road squanders this moment - and this complex, stranger-than-fiction story - to bring us a talented cast walking through a lazy script.” – Nashville Scene Feb 25, 2021 Full Review Spaceship Earth (2020) 87% EDIT “It's got a lot to say about the state of our planetary ecology and the psychology of creative dreamers, and it's also a superbly well-timed release as a study of life in isolation.” – Nashville Scene Jun 4, 2020 Full Review 1917 (2019) 88% EDIT “1917 spends a lot of time focused on the crushing monotony of war, but it marries the boring repetition of marching, running and crawling with an urgent plot, and the resulting tension is gripping.” – Nashville Scene Jan 17, 2020 Full Review Dark Waters (2019) 89% EDIT “Dark Waters delivers with deeply confident filmmaking, giving us a contemporary classic of elite corruption, and a return to form for the courtroom drama.” – Nashville Scene Dec 10, 2019 Full Review Working Man (2019) 93% EDIT “This is a movie about the dignity of work. It's never pedantic or preachy, and it doesn't glorify manual labor while ignoring the grit.” – Nashville Scene Oct 10, 2019 Full Review Rewind (2019) 100% EDIT “Rewind is an important movie because of its crucial social message. But it's a great film because it's a hero's tale about an incredibly brave little kid from an exceptional family.” – Nashville Scene Oct 10, 2019 Full Review Cold War (2018) 92% EDIT “The film ... brims with energy, intrigue and eros, and also an abiding love for the films of the second half of the 20th century.” – Nashville Scene Jun 17, 2019 Full Review The Aftermath (2019) 26% EDIT “The acting in The Aftermath is strong across the board, but the script and editing both fail the performers.” – Nashville Scene Jun 17, 2019 Full Review Tolkien (2019) 51% EDIT “More than once Tolkien put me in mind of Dead Poets Society, and there isn't higher praise for a literary coming-of-age screen story.” – Nashville Scene Jun 17, 2019 Full Review
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